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The 10 best nonfiction books

In essays about art and identity, Alexander Chee finds poetry in everything from tarot to catering

1 BAD BLOOD

John Carreyrou

In 2015, Pulitzer Prize winner Carreyrou broke the news that $9 billion startup Theranos—which promised to revolutionize health care with a new blood-testing method—didn’t have the technology it claimed to have. In this Silicon Valley drama, he opens his reporter’s notebook to deliver a tale of corporate fraud and legal browbeating that reads like a crime thriller.

2 BARRACOON

Zora Neale Hurston

The final survivor of the last known ship

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